1. Show Me the Money: Grant Writing
Course Duration: 4 Days
Speaker:
Elsa Mottola

Course Description: This course is designed to enhance the skills of program developers and proposal writers in the competitive grant solicitation process. The course covers the key steps to preparing a winning proposal including program planning, developing measurable outcomes, budget planning and program accountability. Participants attending this course will produce an actual grant draft.

2. Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Prevention But Were Afraid to Ask: Substance Abuse Prevention Specialist Training
Course Duration: 4 Days
Speakers:
Scott Allen, Symons Emergency Specialties
Jill Parker, Bear River Health Department

Course Description: This course will provide a general overview of the prevention field using facilitator instruction and interactive exercises. Course topics include: history of substance abuse prevention efforts; prevention research and theory; program planning; pharmacology; culture and ethics; human development; media and evaluation.

3. A Change Will Do Your Community Good: Effective Advocacy
Course Duration: 4 Days
Speakers:
Jewel Love, MEE Productions
Sue Thau, CADCA
Holly Torske, PIRE
Meena Vagnier, CADCA

Course Description: This course provides the fundamentals of effective prevention advocacy at different levels of government and describes how legislation and policy form part of a strategic framework to effect changes in your community prevention efforts. In addition, this skill-building course will provide coalitions an understanding of the social determinants of health and substance abuse and how they can be leveraged to reduce and prevent substance abuse and related problems. Participants will also learn about the use of commercial marketing concepts and tools for prevention programs designed to influence individuals' behavior to improve their well being and that of society as well as specific environmental and underage drinking strategies useful in effecting change in their communities.

4. Reentry, Recovery, Rehabilitation and Restitution
Course Duration: 4 Days
Speaker:
Bruce Occena, Department of Public Health, City and County of San Francisco Substance Abuse Treatment Access

Course Description: In this intensive four-day workshop, coalition participants will learn how to mount a successful initiative aimed at increasing community safety by decreasing the likelihood that non-violent drug offenders who have been incarcerated will re-offend when they come home. Learn how public safety, treatment, rehabilitated offenders and other coalitions members are carrying out reentry initiatives on the community level. In addition to learning about state of the art research and practice on “what works” in the field of offender rehabilitation, CADCA has arranged for “site visits” to model programs in the Bay Area.

5. Coalition Boot Camp
Course Duration: 4 Days
Speakers:
Jim Paoni, CADP, Prevention First, Inc.
Mark Yanick, Coalition Institute

Course Description: This course is designed for anti-drug coalition leaders, community leaders, drug prevention personnel, education professional or those who want to launch a community anti-drug coalition in their environment. This training will feature both didactic instruction and small group exercises. Course topic areas include reviewing the history and evolution of the coalition movement, the public health model, assessing risk and protective factors, stages of community readiness and associated strategies and the seven basic steps to starting a coalition. The course also covers the steps in developing a coalition strategic plan, building organizational structure, recruiting and maintaining volunteers, developing a leadership plan and steps to strengthening and sustaining the coalition infrastructure and resource base.

6. Don’t Judge a Book By It’s Cover: Building Cultural Competency
Course Duration: 2 Days
Speaker:
Juan Callejas, PhD, ATS, Inc.

Course Description: This course provides an introduction to the theory and practice of cultural competency, reviews cultural competence, the elements needed to work with diverse populations and the national standards of cultural competency. It will also help participants recognize when cultural factors may be influencing interpersonal dynamics. Participants will also learn how to communicate effectively across cultures and how to resolve cross-cultural conflict constructively through a variety of group exercises and activities.

7. You Can’t Steer a Boat Without a Rudder: Setting a Course for Evaluation
Course Duration: 2 Days
Speakers:
Paul Evensen, Community Systems Group
Jeff Stowell, Community Systems Group
Caryn Blitz, PhD, Coalition Institute

Course Description: The course is roughly divided into four working time blocks (day one morning. day one afternoon, etc.). Block one involves convening the group, introducing the attendees and mapping the two days of work for participants. After introductions, the remainder of time block one will be devoted to logic model development. Time block two focuses on learning the five functions of evaluation and a step-by-step guide for creating evaluation plans. Each time block is roughly divided into a presentation and introduction of tools (e.g., orientation, modeling and how to) and then a working session (i.e., produce it). Time block three is devoted to team presentations of products and group critique and feedback (e.g., trouble shooting and critical reflection). Time block four will involve participants revising their plans and models based on the feedback received and creating an action plan for implementation. The workshop concludes with a celebration of skills mastered and products created.

8. Getting Through the Clutter: Effective Coalition Media Relations, Marketing and Public Relations Strategies
Course Duration: 2 Days
Speaker:
Jack Claypoole, LRADAC

Course Description: This course reviews the essential steps to developing a successful communications plan to raise public awareness and ensure community buy-in. Course highlights include how to work with the media to further your coalitions goals, how to gain public support for coalition efforts, how to market your coalition to various audiences and how to deal with crisis media situations. Participants will be provided with the framework to produce an active media relations plan, marketing plan, and overall communications strategy.

9. Building Strategies To Breed Success: Leadership Development
Course Duration: 2 Days (Mon-Tues only)
Speaker:
Wendy Jill Krom, Community Consulting Services

Course Description: Research increasingly shows that leadership is a key ingredient to successful coalition building. This interactive course will help you develop effective leadership skills through presentations and exercises on the following topics: concepts of leadership, evolving leadership styles, motivation and teamwork. This course will help you better understand and develop your leadership abilities.

10. Defending Your Life
Course Duration: 2 Days (Wed-Thurs only)
Speakers:
Jane Callahan, Coalition Institute
Rhonda Smith, Mt. St. Joseph’s College
James Nunnley, Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office

Course Description: So, you think you are ready for an advanced class in coalition operation? Are you ready to take your coalition to the next level of sophistication and effectiveness? Then this is the class for you. For this advanced level course, CADCA has assembled key national leaders who make substance abuse policy and evaluate coalition effectiveness. Each participant will have the opportunity to present his/her coalition’s strategic plan and outcomes for critique and constructive feedback and learn how to better deal with coalition management and sustainability issues.

11. Environmental Strategies & Alcohol Policy
Course Duration: 2 Days (Wed-Thurs only)
Speaker: TBA

Course Description: This skill-building course is designed to provide coalitions an understanding of the social determinants of health and substance abuse and how they can be leveraged to reduce and prevent substance abuse and related problems. Participants will be introduced to specific environmental strategies that can be used in their communities, how these strategies can become a critical approach in their coalition’s response to current needs and processes for determining the social norms about substance abuse in their communities.

12. Involving the Recovery Community
Course Duration: 1 Day (Tues only)
Speakers:
Susan Rook
Pam White, Nashville Prevention Partnership

Course Description: The recovery community plays a vital role in advancing the work of community coalitions. However, it is often ignored and stigmatized. Most coalitions address substance abuse issues primarily in terms of prevention and are unaware of the issues of the recovery community. This course will provide strategies and examples of how your coalition can involve people in recovery at all levels of your coalition and be actively involved in reducing stigma and discrimination and advocating for treatment services. Participants will also learn about the new national recovery movement, the National Treatment Plan and how they can link their local efforts to a larger, national agenda.

13. Finding the Spirit: Working with the Faith Community
Course Duration: 1 Day (Mon only)
Speaker:
Eduardo Hernandez, PhD, Coalition Institute

Course Description: This course will provide participants with a broad overview of the issues of faith and spirituality as protective factors, outline the significant assets religious organizations possess and describe how they can be mobilized to reduce substance abuse problems. Participants will learn about some of the challenges of working with the faith community and hear about how several CADCA coalitions have successfully partnered with congregations in their communities.